'Come in, my warriors' - The Queen's love of racing in her own words as millions watch funeral across world
Her Majesty on her earliest racing memories
“My philosophy about racing is simple. I enjoy breeding a horse that is faster than other people's. I enjoy going racing but basically I love horses.”“A thoroughbred epitomises a really good horse to me. My particular hope for the future, like all breeders of horses, is to breed the winner of the Derby.”“It's one of the few places I go that doesn't smell of fresh paint!”
“It was very exciting to have a horse so soon as an owner to run in the Derby but Aureole ruined his chance in the parade. And one shouldn't really be sad not to win because Sir Gordon Richards had won his Derby at last.
You simply can’t say The Queen didn’t love the sport. Her she wrote to jockey Joe Mercer after he steered her homebred Highclere home in front in the 1974 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.
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